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I've got Banishers downloading now! It looks great in the trailer

I got a year of Ultimate from Loaded for £117, so I'm good until about this time next year. I might see if I can pick up another year or two on the cheap. My kids and I all get use out of the sub so it's a family expense and even though its gone through the roof I'll still keep it going

I like the look of Ball x Pit, so I'll give that a go when it launches

That looks like a great game. I've enjoyed both the Arkham series and the LEGO Batman series, so a mashup of them seems like a no brainer!

It hasn't really altered my game spending, as I hardly buy games anyway. Mostly, when I do, I get them when they're on sale

I got Robocop, as I had enough reward points for a £10 card and I've had my eye on it for a while.

For me it's a little less but as I didn't really play all that much when I was younger, it hasn't made much difference. I also play different types of games these days. I was all about Halo and now I'll play RPG style (and other) games too.

My son and I have been looking forward to this coming to GP so we'll be getting stuck in to it this weekend!

I'm the same as Cap above, got the Forza 5 bundle and got me the achievement.

@Kaloudz If you only buy one, get the Return to Arkham as that is a 2 game bundle and it's the original games. Knight is the more polished game and it brings the Batmobile in too.

This looks like a great game and its one I've not heard of before so I'll be downloading it when it comes out.

I think that MS couldn't care less about CoD. They are looking at capturing the mobile market with the acquisition of King and that is where the big bucks are.

I picked up Gotham Knights for my son. The price has dropped really fast!

I like the look of this, sounds right up my street. I just need more time in the day so I can fit in all my gaming!

I will be getting this at some point but not at launch. I've got too many games already queued.

If it comes to Game Pass I'll probably try it.

I'm not a fan of the cosmetic stuff and I won't be buying any of it but my kids, who love Fortnite, have spent loads on that so I could see them doing the same if they got into Halo. 343/MS will make a bucket load out of these things just not from me.

I had the first two story related acheivements unlock last night after this update was applied. I was thinking I might have to replay the campaign again to get them to pop.

I'll be all over Halo. Nothing else will get a look in until I've Solo'd it on Legendary!

Moving Out and LEGO Batman are great games and the LEGO games are always an easy ish 100%.
Not heard of the other two before so will download them and see what they are all about.

That looks great! Halo is the reason I got into Xbox in the first place.

Looks like I'll be downloading another game!

Cheers for the heads up. Downloading now.

Set it downloading as I got ready for work this morning.

Destroy All Humans! and R-Type for me.

Very excited to get on Destroy All Humans! again. I really enjoyed it the first time it was released.

@FraserG You guys are doing a great job and it's brilliant to have the site back. Keep smashing it out the park!

TBH, when it was first introduced I was a sceptic and didn't use the service. Recently all the games I've played have been from GP and I got the All Access Series X deal so I'm in for 2 years. Even if I only play 2 or 3 games that would have retailed at full price I've got value from the service. It's brilliant.

I think I might give Jedi Fallen Order a go or continue my play through of DOOM Eternal.

@FraserG Smashing review! You've got me even more hyped for collecting my Series X on Tuesday. Bring it on!!

@TownYsend I've not had any emails from them but I've been in touch with the branch and I need to go to the shop tomorrow or Wednesday with my paperwork.

@TownYsend I'll keep an eye on the Boro branch twitter feed then. Thanks for the heads up.

@TownYsend Will do and thanks

Hmmm, I'm an All Access buyer too and so far a big fat nothing from GAME regards to communication. A tad concerned regarding my order.

What a brilliant game R-Type is. I've had it on the Spectrum right through to the One X and I'll be getting this one too.

Ooof, I won't be getting that for a long time until the price drops considerably. I've got 2 4TB HDD that I'll move the games between as and when needed.

Managed to secure myself a pre-order from GAME. I saw on the local shop's Twitter that they had a small amount of free stock and I just headed out from work and grabbed one.

Smyths and GAME are still unavailable. Not good at all for the All Access purchases.

Smyths still down. GAME is over an hour wait in the queue.

Both GAME and Smyths Toys not playing ball

If the UK price is competitive, which I'm assuming it will be, then this is how I will be getting the new console.

I finished it yesterday. Quite an enjoyable game with only the lack of a map providing the only low point, in my opinion.

I played Destroy All Humans! when it originally released so I'll be looking to get this and replay (and complete it this time).

I won't be watching it but I'll be checking back here on Friday for all the news.

@roe I LOL'd a lot at that

To me it doesn't seem any different from the current retail packaging.

It's downloaded for me so I'll be giving it a go tonight hopefully. It looked great when I saw it previously on Push Square and hoped that it would come to Xbox.

I'd be quite upset (in a rational way) if MS went internal battery as that is far more inconvenient than having some spare batteries to hand. They should include rechargables in the box rather than normal batteries.

From what I've read about Series X the SSD is one of the best bits of the new console purely for the faster promised loading times. I'm finding myself getting impatient at games taking ages to load and just wanting to get in there and get on with it.

Welcome back! I'm looking forward to Xbox news again especially with Series X just a few months away.